VIKEUMD.K — TIIK \'IKKOS. 



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was attaclied with spiders'- weljs, lined inside with finer blades of grass, aud 

 about three inclies aud a hall' in diameter, aud five iu heiulit. The em's, 

 three iu number, were white, with a tew black spots, chiefly disposed about 

 the lartrer cud. 



Vireosylvia olivaceus, I'.uxXaf. 



BED-EYED GREENLET. 



Muscicapa. olivacea, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 327 (based on Edwards, tab. 253, and Cates- 

 BY, pi. liv). — W11..S. Lanius olivaceus, LiCHT. Verz. 1823, 49 (N. Amer.). Fireo oliva- 

 ccm, ViEU.L. ; Box. ; Swains. II. — Aud. — Baird, Birds N. Am. IS.'iS, 331. — Sam- 

 uels, Birds N. Eng. 270. Vireosijlvia oliv. BoN. Geog. Com]). List, 1838. — 1b. C'ousp. 

 1850, 329. — Reinh.uidt, Vid. Med. f. 1853, 1854, 82 (Greenland). — Is. Ibis, 111, 7. 

 — SCL.ATER, P. Z. S. 1S55, 151 (Bogota) ; 1859, 137, 363 (Xalapa). — A. & E. Newton, 

 Ibis, 1859, 145. — Sclater & Sai.vin, Ibis, 1859, 12 (Gnatemala). — Lawrhnce, Ann. 

 N. Y. Lye. VII, 1860, 24li (Cuba).— ? Ibis, 1864, 394 (Derby, Engl. May, 1859). — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. B. 1864, 333. fhi/lhmancs oHv. Cab. Mus. Hcin. 1850-51, 63. — Ib. Jour. 

 1860, 404 (Costa Rica). — Gundl. Cab. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba; very rare). ? J'ircu 

 virescens, ViElLL. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 84, pi. liii (Penna.). — ?Ghay, Genera, I, 

 267, pi. Ixv. Fireo bogotensis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. YII, 1860, 227 (Bogota). — 

 L.UVUEXCE, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1863 (Birds Panama, IV, No. 378). 



Sp. Char. (No. 1,418 ^, Carlisle, Peun., May, 1844.) Upper parts olive-green. Top 

 of head, from bill to nape, ash-color. A white line from nostrils above and beyond the 

 eye, bordered above by a dusky line forming the edge of the ashy cap, and below by a 

 similar, perhaps paler, loral and post-ocular cheek-stripe. Beneath, including tibire. white, 

 with perhaps a tinge of olivaceous-ash across the lireast ; the sides of the neck like the 



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Vireo olivaceus. 



back; sides of the body with a faint wa.sli of olive. Axillars and crtssiim faintly tinged 

 with sulphur-yellow ; lining of wings and its edge, the latter especially, nearly white. 

 Quills blackish-brown, edged externally, except at ends of primaries, with olive, internally 

 with white. Tail-feathers lighter brown, edged externally like the back, internally with 

 pale olivaceous-white. Bill dusky above, pale below ; tarsi plumbeous ; iris red. Length, 

 6.33 ; extent of wing-s 10.25 ; wing, 3.33 ; tail, "2.50. 



Female similar, but duller in plumage. 



Hab. Whole of Eastern North America (GrcMMilaud. Halifax, Fort Simpson), west to 

 base of llockv Mountain.s, reaching Fort Bridger, and still farther northward to Bitterroot 

 Mountains and Kootenay ; soutli to Panama and Bogota, in winter (Xalapa only in Mex- 

 ico) ; very rare in Cuba (only West Indian locaUty). Accidental iu England. Trinidad. 

 (FiNscn.) 



